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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">That’s why for anything important, I like regular-interval reporting and not Smart Beaconing. If the interval is every 2 minutes, then you know you should be hearing from every asset every 2 minutes and if you don’t, then something is wrong. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The channel optimum for 1 min rate is 6 mobiles</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">For 2 min rate, it is 12 mobiles, etc..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">For 3 min rate, it is 18 mobiles, etc.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Bob</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">----------------------</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Subject:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Re: [aprssig] SmartBeaconing for Bicycle mobile</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Might I suggest that you use a 5:1 ratio?</p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">5 mins @ 2 mph with 1 min @ 10 mph?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Theoretically that would update at the same delta distance between the speeds, <span style="color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">making the track more 'regular', so to speak.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">(almost like making the reports based on distance change instead of elapsed time)</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">----------------</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:44 PM Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) <<a href="mailto:KJ4ERJ@arrl.net">KJ4ERJ@arrl.net</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you. I'll try 2mph @ 2 minutes and 10mph @ 1 minute tomorrow and <br>see how it works out. We're not in a very busy APRS environment here, <br>so the 1 and 2 minutes shouldn't be a burden. Especially not coming <br>from a 5w HT.<br><br>Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32<br><br>On 3/8/2019 10:20 AM, Joe Della Barba wrote:<br>> You need to change the settings. I would use about 2 as slow and 10 as <br>> fast.<br>><br>> How often slow and fast beacon is another setting too and that is <br>> where you keep it from overloading the network. I think for my boat 2 <br>> was slow and 4 fast. For the airplane tracker it was more like 20 and <br>> 100 and a path change once altitude was > 1000 feet. Below 1,000 it <br>> was WIDE2-2 and above 1000 no path at all.<br>><br>> 73<br>><br>> N3HGB<br>><br>> On 3/7/2019 8:06 PM, Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:<br>>> Does anyone have experience with efficient SmartBeaconing parameters <br>>> for bicycle mobile operation? I'm looking to configure my D74 to <br>>> provide an accurately updating location without overloading the local <br>>> frequency too much. I really like SmartBeaconing, but the the 10-70 <br>>> mph slow and fast speeds just don't cut it for a bicycle!<br>>><br>>> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32<br>>><br>>> PS. Don't look at KJ4ERJ-4's raw packets as I was doing a local test <br>>> of a pole mounted antenna with 30 second beaconing this afternoon!<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> aprssig mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br>>> <a href="http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org</a><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> aprssig mailing list<br>> <a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br>> <a href="http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>aprssig mailing list<br><a href="mailto:aprssig@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig@lists.tapr.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">http://lists.tapr.org/mailman/listinfo/aprssig_lists.tapr.org</a></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>